A congressional staffer said Net neutrality and broadband legislation will surely be reintroduced in the next Congress, but representatives of the telecom industry say there are better ways to keep the Internet open.

HP has figured out when YouTube and Digg content can become popular using an algorithm that will make you wish you paid attention in math class.

Called the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, the initiative is designed to take thousands of 1960s-era analog images and convert them to digital.

Finetune lets you create playlists with music you don't own. Not such a big deal on your computer, but definitely useful on the iPhone.

The Equifax Over 18 card is one of the first to use the open standards from the Information Card Foundation.

LexJet will use a different ink formula in its remanufactured cartridges and pay Hewlett-Packard an undisclosed sum.

Netflix CEO says televisions equipped with Wii-like pointers and Web browsers key to future of Internet video.

Update includes both Mac and Windows versions Apple's Web browser.

The wireless operator is being forced to divest some of its Nextel assets as it struggles to get back on track with even more cost cutting.

OpenSocial is just over a year old and already well on its way to reaching a billion registered users by the end of 2009. We get a look at the future of the platform.

Surprise, surprise: When the economy is in the tank, people outside the tech industry tend to think about mundane rather than the profound and world-changing.

Microsoft updates Games for Windows Live.

Mobile users want full Web access on their smartphones, driving growth in the mobile browser market.

The software giant says that fixing the flaw earlier would have broken customer network applications.

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators for creating solutions for developing countries.

The global economy is in as bad shape as we've ever seen. Yet most IT experts predict sales of computer hardware, software and services will grow at a healthy clip again within 18 months.

Barack Obama hasn't even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they think his CTO should work on.

Microsoft has quietly launched a new online store where U.S. customers can buy its software and hardware products.

Carriers and ISPs will soon face a do-or-die moment for their mobile Internet revenue streams, said panelists at a Mass Network Communications Council breakfast Thursday morning.

An industry analyst says the nation's telecom carriers would benefit from working with Google instead of fighting over issues such as Net neutrality, white-space spectrum usage and selling software as a service over carrier networks.

With expectations high that the incoming Obama administration will be decidedly tech-centric, it's worth noting that the president-elect is getting advice from Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

A mobile phone trade group has dropped a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission that challenged its so-called open-access rules on a block of valuable spectrum that was auctioned earlier this year.

Advanced Micro Devices is jumping into the mini-notebook space, delivering processors starting in 2009 for small laptops.

Reinforcing the image that college networks are highly insecure, the University of Florida is warning more than 330,000 patients of its dental school about a data breach discovered in October.

If high-quality copies of corporate meetings can be easily recorded, both vendors and users will have to determine how best to safeguard such information.

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AMD's Yukon will be the company's first platform to compete with Intel's successful low-power Atom processor for placement in sub-$500 systems with displays of 10 inches or less.

Widely regarded as a haven for spammers and cybercriminals, EstDomains must now designate a recipient for the 281,000 domain registrations it manages.

The law, scheduled to take effect in December 2009, prohibits payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks related to online wagers.

Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.

The market for smartphone browsers will become crowded as more customers seek access to Web apps, social networking, and online videos.

With refreshed blades, racks, and towers, the computer makers are hoping to bask in the limelight from the launch of AMD's 45-nm Opteron server processor.

The update addresses nine Security Advisories, some of which cover multiple vulnerabilities.

Suite of outsourcing services to help grow BofNYMellon's treasury offerings to allow clients to provide solutions without costly investments.

Xerox becomes the preferred global imaging partner for IBM Managed Business Process Services.

The smartphone will be exclusive to Russia's 4G network, but it paves the way for handsets with high-speed mobile broadband.

Payment solution for small business automates accounting for credit card, electronic check and check payments.

The massively multiplayer online role-playing game requires the player to have the original World Of Warcraft game and its first extension.

In these troubled economic times, IT employment is holding up well and continues to outperform the general employment market.

Senators ask the nation's biggest banks to explain how they are using the billions of taxpayer dollars provided to them under the bailout program.

Verizon is taking the iPhone 3G head on by offering the first touch-screen BlackBerry while it tries to keep subscribers from defecting to AT&T's network.

AP - Many of the problems facing Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are of its own making. But the limited choices the chip maker has for solving its troubles are symptoms of an affliction sweeping through Silicon Valley.

AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that briefly used it.

AP - People flocked to buy video games in October despite a drop in consumer confidence to a historic low, spending $1.31 billion in U.S. retail stores on hardware, software and accessories.

AP - Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 1.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study released Thursday.

CNET - There is a huge market for mobile phones in India, but according to the locals, Apple's iPhone hasn't even made a dent.

NewsFactor - In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.

Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) sold 803,210 Wii video game consoles in the United States in October, continuing the console's lead as the country's best-selling video game console, the company said on Thursday, citing figures from market research firm NPD.

NewsFactor - AT&T and Nokia on Thursday brought the Nokia 6650 to market to compete against other devices launching in time for the holiday shopping season. The small folding device runs on the Symbian-based S60 platform, which lets users personalize their mobile experience with third-party application downloads, themes and profile settings.

InfoWorld - Sonatype is moving forward with commercial products augmenting the open-source Apache Maven build manager for Java, readying a repository manager and a product linking Maven to the Eclipse IDE.

NewsFactor - The Internet is a little less jammed with spam after a cybercrime group blew the whistle on one of the biggest offenders. HostExploit, an alliance of volunteers who work at Google, McAfee and Arbor Networks, has been tracking and documenting cybercrime activity and its latest effort slashed worldwide spam by 50 percent and junk e-mail by 75 percent.

NewsFactor - IBM on Thursday announced two blade servers that will feature the new quad-core Opteron Shanghai processor from Advanced Micro Devices. The announcement was synchronized with AMD's release of the 45nm processor.

Reuters - Video game sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.